​Chen Xianhui | The Truth of Revolution: Chronicles of 20th Century China

Foreword
The word that Chinese people were most indoctrinated with in the 20th century was probably “revolution.” The revolutionaries’ modern history, compiled to serve the interests of a single party, praises revolution, the revolutionary party, the revolutionary army, and revolutionary leaders, claiming that “revolution represents progress and justice, and seeks happiness for the people.” Russian historian Afanasyev once said: “Re-examining Soviet history is like waking up from a dream; no nation and country’s history has been as severely altered as that of the Soviet Union.” Afanasyev did not know that the history of 20th-century China was even more severely altered, and re-examining it is also like waking up from a dream. After the collapse of the communist camp, Eastern European countries rewrote their own 20th-century histories. Unfortunately, China’s official modern history books are still filled with lies, with good and evil reversed.
This book aims to break away from the propaganda in popular history books, abandon the revolutionary party’s discourse system, and stand on a non-partisan position to narrate the suffering history of 20th-century China, narrate how the two powerful neighbors, Japan and Russia, planned the Chinese revolution, how they formulated the program and slogans of the Chinese revolution, how they supported the establishment of the Chinese revolutionary party, how they selected the Chinese revolutionary leaders, narrate how the late Qing government, the Beiyang government, and the Nationalist government chose the correct path of strengthening the country and enriching the people, and how they were overthrown by foreign powers, narrate the disasters and darkness brought by the revolution, and commemorate the hundreds of millions of civilians who died in the 20th-century revolution and the patriots and people-loving individuals labeled as reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries by directly writing about the evils of the revolution.

Chen Xianhui
December 2014